Try: "We chose not to have an exception, even for Chevening prog. Its unfortunate + unfair to vg students identified by FCDO. But we hope that may increase our leverage with their govts"
Why do we think that in case of Afghan women+Taliban govt?
Maybe it "sends a message" here. But what message?
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
Oh boy! What a headline...
Ask yourself:
"What am I being asked to believe?"
"Who am I being told to blame?"
Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.
Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵
1/21
To the #Republicans
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
-D Eisenhower 1953
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.
He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
Make no mistake, today’s carnage was designed by two corrupt wannabe dictators (Trump & Netanyahu) to kill a third brutal dictator in order to keep the first two in power. This had nothing to do with Democracy in any way, shape or form.
NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.
Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.
Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.
My report:
I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.
Docs from July 2021 vs Oct 2025 seem to show that ICE eliminated over a dozen exams previously required by ERO officers, including:
- Judgement Pistol Shooting
- Determine Removability
- Encounters to Detention
- Detention to Removal
- Criminal Encounters
Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers dismissed Private Eye as “an absolute rag of a publication”
Perhaps it was because @privateeyenews.bsky.social was publishing articles like this about Lord Mandelson's links with Epstein as long ago as March 2009!
I hope we can find a way out. Anyway, if you read this with some sense of recognition, here’s a hug. I hope we get our heads above water soon. 10/10.
It’s not a good system. It fosters overwork, just-in-time work, reactivity rather than proactivity, and above all what I’ve come to call the “perma-crisis.” Worse, striking or withdrawing labour hurts only the people I care about—my students, my colleagues—not the administrators or uni. 9/
…not to mention dozens of rec letters, referee reports, and so on.
I don’t have a punchy takeaway, but when I look at these numbers, when I feel how tired I am when I wake, I see I’m drowning. Lecturers teaching 10x the students I do are drowning. MPs are drowning too. 8/
Some of the activities here are core components of my job: meeting students, teaching, etc. But all this sits atop a vast amount of stuff that is also my job but not captured here: marking (in 2025 I marked 502k words of theses, essays, and exams); research (2 papers in 2025, book in 2024),… 7/
What to take away? For starters, those are hefty numbers for someone who has no staff to assist. One can also see quickly how being ill for a week creates a backlog that is hard to catch up on: see queuing theory—e.g., response time for emails might remain double forever if I don’t do overtime. 6/
Note again:
- the events don’t account for hours (some of these events are 3-hour classes, others all-day talks with several individual meetings, while others are 30-minute office hours appointments)
- they don’t account for informal meetings (e.g., staying after a class to answer questions) 5/
Meetings, classes, seminars, compiled from my work-only Google calendar:
2025: ~416 events (lower as I was not teaching in the fall and stopped being a seminar organiser)
2024: ~780 events
2023: ~552 events
Numbers again rough without formal reports in Google calendar… 4/
Note that this
- misses work-related emails sent to my personal email (common with coauthors, former students, etc.)
- does not count calls, texts, etc.
- already includes a lot of automation (my students book meetings with calendly, receive zoom links with that booking, etc.) 3/
Work inbox ONLY—
2025: ~6576 emails received
2024: ~5724 emails received
2023: ~4332 emails received
Work emails sent (perhaps somewhat analogous to casework)—
2025: ~1344 emails sent
2024: ~1092 emails sent
2023: ~996 emails sent
Numbers are rough as outlook is hard to do reporting in. 2/
A serious problem. I’ll add that things are similar for professors—and will be increasingly so as funding and staff for higher ed are slashed. Here are my numbers for email (counting inbox only; all listservs, events/calendar, routine reports etc. filter into other folders) and meetings: 1/🧵
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US.
Read that again.
69 MILLION married women.
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